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sharkmafia posted:It's still baffling to me that there's a segment of 40k players who are so brainwormed that they will scream about quitting the game over such a nothingburger I mean, on the one hand, there are nerds that threaten to quit over any change; Primaris, the introduction of AoS (which was fair at the time), the lore change that made ethereals mind control other Tau which made them slightly more evil. But female space marines always had this vitriol behind it of “THEY are destroying what I love.” As if Space Marines being 100% male is some kind of cornerstone of fiction that cannot be broken, that is the last bastion before being infected by the WOKE!!!
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I'm making an all female host called The Fish Speakers and nobody can stop me.
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Apr 14, 2024 20:00
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That's just the Sisters of Battle
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Apr 14, 2024 20:34
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Eej posted:That's just the Sisters of Battle There's room for both.
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Apr 14, 2024 20:36
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:I'm making an all female host called The Fish Speakers and nobody can stop me. My new detachment. Captain Rose Nylund posted:We are vigilance unending. We are duty unstinting. We are punishment inescapable. We are the Adeptus Custodes, and all must fear our wrath. 
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Apr 14, 2024 20:37
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bird food bathtub posted:I think there's a pretty good case to make that they could have been female all along. When you're an 8 foot tall walking talking hulking genetic freak with questionably as much of your original body left as you have now, who's to say you started off with one set of plumbing over the other? You're barely even human anymore and you live your life in either isolation or a form fitting fusion powered tank. Would sort of make sense, biologically, all humans begin as females, males just have some extra junk on top, would be in some ways easier to start with female plumbing.
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Apr 14, 2024 20:50
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Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:There's room for both. No the Sisters of Battle are literally based on the Fish Speakers from Dune. Edit: not that you can't do both, Im just saying that the SoB are literally the fish speakers
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Apr 14, 2024 20:57
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AnEdgelord posted:No the Sisters of Battle are literally based on the Fish Speakers from Dune. I don't see the resemblance much. Fish speakers are married to men and act more as secret police. They don't wear any power armor analogue and aren't super religious, their boss is just god. Fish speakers also have weird bio truth stuff about only a woman army leading the o long term peace since men will want to start raping and conquering and create excuses for war.
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The Sisters Of Battle are the result of a legal loophole, which kinda owns.
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neaden posted:I don't see the resemblance much. Fish speakers are married to men and act more as secret police. They don't wear any power armor analogue and aren't super religious, their boss is just god. Fish speakers also have weird bio truth stuff about only a woman army leading the o long term peace since men will want to start raping and conquering and create excuses for war. tbf the biotruth stuff is pretty roundly poo poo on in heretics and chapterhouse with the honored matres to the point that it seems like Leto II was loving with the reader, also they are definately super religious but Leto only allows them the ritual of Siaynoq
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Nothing past the second, maaaaaaaaybe third, Dune books should be respected enough to recognize its existence. There's the possibility of some cool story beats in there but it turns into mind control vagina assassins and just keeps getting weirder and more icky.
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bird food bathtub posted:Nothing past the second, maaaaaaaaybe third, Dune books should be respected enough to recognize its existence. There's the possibility of some cool story beats in there but it turns into mind control vagina assassins and just keeps getting weirder and more icky. I thought the books were very good up to 4, then 5 is just people having meetings and saying dumb poo poo while their internal monologue was reeling with how meaningful and profound what was just said was. That's when I stopped.
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Apr 14, 2024 22:12
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Kabuki Shipoopi posted:You're right I should have known better. It's just disappointing. 
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Apr 14, 2024 22:21
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Some people’s favorite part of any hobby is just complaining.
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bird food bathtub posted:Nothing past the second, maaaaaaaaybe third, Dune books should be respected enough to recognize its existence. There's the possibility of some cool story beats in there but it turns into mind control vagina assassins and just keeps getting weirder and more icky. You know what far future sci fi needs? Less weirdness! God Emperor owns tho
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I'm not seeing any good eBay deals on dumped Custodes. Clearly, Rob needs to go even harder.
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Eej posted:You know what far future sci fi needs? Less weirdness! while each dune sequel isn't quite as good as the preceding book, each is worth reading and definitely influenced the warhammer universe a whole lot
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Improbable Lobster posted:while each dune sequel isn't quite as good as the preceding book, each is worth reading and definitely influenced the warhammer universe a whole lot God emperor is book four and is easily the second best in the whole series
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Improbable Lobster posted:while each dune sequel isn't quite as good as the preceding book, each is worth reading and definitely influenced the warhammer universe a whole lot Just don't read "books" "seven and eight".  (I only read book eight out of spite, I spent the entire time yelling at the characters for being so stupid and deserving of death.)
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Eej posted:I believe that's what is called a Shot Trap  
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dune 4 is the best one but its also the one where the author goes mask off as a huge lovecraft style bigot and has the characters have his melt down by proxy about his irl gay son glad to see women custodes are a thing, i named a bunch of mine as such anyway. its bittersweet though because I just finished painting them in time to fight my friends orks next month and we both got new codexes and... its impossible to actually build and play a list in 40k before it gets completely changed/shitcanned, outside of TTS anyway
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Frank Herbert is an equivalent of a bigot as HP Lovecraft is definitely not a take I thought I'd see today
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Eej posted:Frank Herbert is an equivalent of a bigot as HP Lovecraft is definitely not a take I thought I'd see today i think this is reading too much into a post where the poster just didn't use orson scott card's name instead
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If you've gotta show boobs in your plate, that's probably the best way to do it. But  you'll notice the glacias of the Sherman is rounded, not edged.
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Herbert was absolutely a homophobe, moreso than average for his period, but I think he’s still light years better than Lovecraft, whose bigotry was basically the core of his personality until shortly before he died. Herbert being weird about sex is also par for the course for mid 20th century sci fi authors. By that standard he was almost a prude.
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Warmachine posted:If you've gotta show boobs in your plate, that's probably the best way to do it. But you'll also notice that nobody in age of sigmar is shooting a howitzer at stormcast that model is a late first-edition design (the early ones are all dudes) but i am highly amused that stormcast are leaning more and more into a ancient mediterranean look and the historical inspiration material includes stuff like this 
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Desfore posted:I’m not actively trying to follow this topic on Twitter, but I guess liking a couple posts about Custodes is all it takes to flood your feed with it: You could cross-reference the replies to this Tweet with Andrew Tate enthusiasts, and it'd be one fuckin' circle on a Venn diagram. (And as someone who has been in this hobby since the very early 90's, I am here for their meltdowns.)
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Hmmm maybe units shouldn't get the fights first charge bonus if they consolidate, just to cut down on how silly these shenanigans are.
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So I'm looking at an Auric Champions list and what's Valerian's problem? Is he just too cool to wear a cape? Get with the program, man.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Herbert was absolutely a homophobe, moreso than average for his period, but I think he’s still light years better than Lovecraft, whose bigotry was basically the core of his personality until shortly before he died. Herbert being weird about sex is also par for the course for mid 20th century sci fi authors. By that standard he was almost a prude. Yeah it doesn't really come up much in Dune besides a few parts here or there like the Baron being an evil bisexual or Duncan not understanding lesbians
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Robert Facepalmer posted:Not-Workshop but Crocodile Games has a few birdmans factions in the Wargods of Aegyptus line. There are good hawk and stork-dudes, then there are evil vulture-guys. Chris Fitzpatrick sculpted for Citadel for a while so they don't quite match the modern aesthetic but they have a Middlehammer look that shouldn't look too wildly out of place. Thank you, I think this might work. The Demilich posted:Corvus Cabal/Cypher Lords was my first thought, but they're more humans with bird ornamentation. Maybe they'd make good kitbash material though. The whole range is going the legends route so maybe it'll be cheap? I like those Cypher Lords quite a lot actually - was looking for Warhammer katanas and stuff - but cheap they do not seem to be 
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What bit fluff goes over who and how woke up Guliman? I was kind of intresting when I found out GW was bring back the primarchs and lost all interest when I found out about Primaris Space Marines. Also why is Guliman dating an Eldar warlock?
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I think he is supposed to come back at the end of The Gathering Storm novel trilogy? https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Gathering_Storm:_Rise_of_the_Primarch Oh, it's a campaign thing?
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Yeah the story is told through the 3 campaign books, which you can find pdfs of all over the internet (they are out of print because they're campaign books not real books).side_burned posted:Also why is Guliman dating an Eldar warlock? He's not, you're just reading too many memes.
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Eej posted:He's not, you're just reading too many memes. Thank the Emperor.
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smug jeebus posted:So I'm looking at an Auric Champions list and what's Valerian's problem? Is he just too cool to wear a cape? Get with the program, man. I just finished painting a squad of Wardens led by Valerian, and I glued a cape on him.  You can use the cape in the Wardens box, although you'll have to file and greenstuff it a little bit.  I also lengthened their legs. I'm not a good hobbyist, but I think it went OK.
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Eej posted:Yeah the story is told through the 3 campaign books, which you can find pdfs of all over the internet (they are out of print because they're campaign books not real books). Also in the Warhammer Vault if you are a WH+ subscriber for some reason.
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